Notable Alumni

Bio

Doug Schuler '72, '91 M.S. received his electrical engineering degree from Florida Technology in 1972 and an M.S. in management in 1991 from Florida Tech's Redstone Arsenal campus in Huntsville, Alabama. He started his career with Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. in Boston and currently works for Westinghouse Corp. in Canton, Massachusetts. as a senior controls engineer and computer control specialist. He previously worked for Chicago Bridge & Iron.

Schuler is currently a controls specialist on four AP1000 next-generation nuclear plants being constructed in China. He has been a lead engineer and project supervisor on five gas co-generation power projects in the U.S. and in Canada, a project engineer and lead on a gas refinery in Algeria for Sonatrach and one in Texas for Texaco. Part of his design involvement has been proposing Scada systems that remotely access offsite control rooms. He was an electrical controls engineer on five new nuclear projects designed and built in the U.S. and Taiwan and a design specialist working with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission analyzing engineered safeguards systems for nine operating nuclear plants. He was also a team leader consulting for Ontario Hydro in Toronto, Canada, supporting an analysis of the state of the Pickering Station design configuration.

Schuler continues to be an active and supportive member of the FIT community. In 2013 he generously established the Douglas M. Schuler Endowment which funds an electrical and computing engineering scholarship. He is a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Committee, the secretary for the Greater Boston Alumni Chapter, and a current member of the alumni board of directors. As an enthusiastic alumnus, he has invested in senior design projects and is a major donor to the Harris Student Design Center providing means for equipment, tooling, and supplies. Schuler has also contributed to the New Boathouse Fund, Flight Test Engineering, A Day of Giving, and much more.

Schuler grew up in New York City and chose FIT because of his interest in aerospace and FIT’s proximity to the Kennedy Space Center. He lives in the Boston area. For fun, he performs in a 40-piece wind ensemble community band and enjoys playing with a string quartet as the only clarinetist. He is an active general aviation commercial pilot and occasionally flies gliders in Vermont.